Now there are two main ways to avoid being killed by a Leshy, you can bring offerings and just don't fuck with the forest and they'll make sure you dont get lost or you can make it laugh and it will let you go because you're funny. Come back tomorrow for the Huaka'i pō

They're a mischievous spirit that likes to play pranks on people who wander into their woods often by misleading travelers telling them to go deeper into the woods to their certain death, using mimicry to confuse travelers with a familiar voice and they're not above just straight kidnapping people.

They can shapesift, typically being shown as a very tall old man but they can also take on animal forms, usually wolves or bears as well as plants.

There's usually only one Leshy per forest and their appearance and behavior changes with the seasons becoming moody in the fall and hibernating in the winter

They can shapesift, typically being shown as a very tall old man but they can also take on animal forms, usually wolves or bears as well as plants.

There's usually only one Leshy per forest and their appearance and behavior changes with the seasons becoming moody in the fall and hibernating in the winter

The witch invites them in pretending to be nice but soon learn that she's just trying to fatten them up to eat them Gretel out smarts the witch and pushes her in the oven saving her brother the siblings take the witches wealth back to their parents and they live happily ever after.

The most common one is two siblings are abandoned in the woods by their farther because a famine is plagues the land and they're too poor to take care of them. They're forced to wander the woods until they find a giant gingerbread house that they start eating only to find out a witch lives there.

They symbolise duty, authority, balance, and the natural transition between life and death. The myths provide a comfort that once we die we won't have to face the underworld or judgement alone and will have someone standing by our side which is nice to think of. Return tomorrow for Hansel and Gretel

Their name translates to "death messanger" they act as guides to souls who have just entered the afterlife they bring you to King Yeomna to determine whether you will be reborn...or punished for all eternity

Unfortunately cause he's from the Haitian Voodoo religion western portrayals of him have him act as more a malevolent harbinger of death who kills people to bring them to hell Which is really dumb cause he's just everyones granddad But that's Papa Legba for you all and next are the Jeosung Saja

Anyway we start this loretober off with Papa Legba a very important spirit from Haitian Voodoo He is the gatekeeper of the spirit world and a messenger between the living and the Loa he is super harmless and seen as a grandfather figure All around a pretty chill guy with a limp and a dog